Tracks:
- Main Title Theme
- Nina and Harker in Love
- Renfield Concocts a Scheme
- Nina Warns Harker As He Departs
- The Carriage Embarks On Its Journey
- The Book of the Vampires
- Approaching the Land of Phantoms
- Aboard the Phantom Carriage
- Nosferatu Appears
- The Accident At Dinner
- Morning
- The Locket
- Nosferatu Stalks Harker
- Discovering the Coffin
- Harker Makes His Escape
- The Ocean
- Sailors Encounter the Rats
- Doctor Van Helsing
- Renfield Possessed
- The Professor/Renfield Confined
- Nina By the Seashore
- The Ship
- Tragedy At Sea
- Terror Below Deck
- The Voyage of the Dead
- Nina in a Trance
- The Carriage
- The Ship Arrives With Ominous Cargo
- Nosferatu Carries His Coffin
- Crossing the Waters
- The Plague
- Funeral Procession
- Nina Learns the Truth About the Vampire
- The Sick Lay Dying
- The Chase
- Nina Awaits the Vampire
- Nosferatu Sees the Sun
- The Village Is Saved
Selections from Jill Tracy and The Malcontent Orchestra’s acclaimed score to F.W. Murnau's 1922 vampire classic silent film Nosferatu, conjuring up creeping shadows and gorgeously sinister landscapes with hints at Erik Satie, Debussy, Tom Waits and Bernard Herrmann. Into the Land of Phantoms is an elegant, eerie journey led by cello, violin, marimba and orchestral percussion- hanging like velvet curtains around Jill Tracy's signature dark-parlour piano.
Described by the SF Weekly as "exquisite, lush, and positively poetic," the noirish compositions by Jill Tracy and The Malcontent Orchestra have developed a fervid cult following of devotees, awards, and critical acclaim. Their original score to F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu has only enhanced the band's reputation of sophistication and musical virtuosity. The San Francisco Examiner described the score as "remarkable....lyrical and lovely." The Marin Independent called it "unforgettable." The San Francisco Chronicle hailed Jill Tracy’s Nosferatu "deliciously macabre."
"I strive to honor the integrity of the film," explained composer/pianist Jill Tracy in a 1999 SF Gate interview during the filmscore's live debut. I don't see Nosferatu as inciting horror or trepidation, as much as an unsettling allure. It's a beautiful, sensual work; the listener should surrender to the spell of the music as intensely as to the spell of the vampire." Read more about Jill Tracy’s Nosferatu project.
For five years, Jill Tracy and The Malcontent Orchestra performed the score live during the week of Halloween to the delight of Northern California audiences. This is Jill Tracy's first instrumental album. The CD was recorded live during an actual Nosferatu performance in San Francisco.
The beautifully designed booklet features artwork created from both the film's lavish scenes and the band in the theatre performing the work.
“Spine-tingling! Jill Tracy does for vampires what John Williams did for sharks.” THE WAVE MAGAZINE (read full interview thewavemag.com .
"Uniquely qualified to give voice to the hallucinatory vampire that stalks F.W. Murnau’s black and white movie, Jill Tracy conjures up the crimson shades of the Grand Guignol and the emerald hues of absinthe." SF WEEKLY